Showoffs!

Girls in Australia, they take on autumn with a philosophy. It never really does get cold anyway. In the boutiques, sweaters mix it up with swimsuits and sandals. They pick out a few warmer pieces from a winter wardrobe but wear them with bare legs and caramel skin.

It’s like it’s make-believe winter, just for fun or something.

I love this interseasonal mix but it totally drives me crazy: I’m so jealous! And here I am, thinking I would come back and find springtime!

oh garance we miss you too!
please feel free to come back to australia at any time.
we’ll be welcoming you with open arms :)
it is hard to imagine that autumn in sydney is actually better than spring in paris. in my imagination, everyday in paris is filled with golden sunshine and the scent of freshly baked loaves of crusty bread.

ps. did you ever get to see/meet a kangaroo/koala or any of our other native animals? hehe koalas can be quite vicious if they’re in a bad mood. did you get to pat one? they have such lovely soft fur, particularly around their ears!

It’s like spring in England! I am in wool jersey dresses, no tights, ballet flats and a blazer/cardigan in case it gets windy at night. Love the outfit in the first picture – so simple and yet so stylish. Love the chunky watch!

your photos are so lovely garance. the first picture just captures a lot of warmth of the city, the woman, and the personal touch you bring to each photo =)…so ha! you can tell that to less than warm days in paris! btw, i think the woman in the first photo looks like a brunette jennifer aniston…no?

as a sydneysider, I would like to make a rebuttal!
it gets cold here! not as cold as in lovely Europe, but considering we are used to summers where temperatures are in the high 30′s and early 40s sometimes (that’s celcius), we are not used to the cold! i personally think people who wear jumpers with bare legs are either silly, or … no just silly. have never understood it.

Your blog is a never ending source of profound inspiration!
I love the way you write and the way you tell a story through your photographs.
Australian weather sounds a bit like our Miami “winters” … but better. ;)

I love your blog. You photos and illustrations are wonderful. I am sad to see you have left Australia I had hoped to see some images of lovely Aboriginal style and fashion, women and men of color. I thought Australia was more of a multicultural community?

I always adore looking at your photos; you’re such a talented photographer. I am obsessed with the one out of the plane window- I kind of have this fixation with clouds and flying- and the girl in the first photo here looks a bit like a dark-haired Jennifer Aniston, n’est-ce pas?
Thanks to you and the Sartorialist (and the exchange rate- 1 Australian dollar to every 75 American cents!), Australia is now on the top of my list of places to visit.

Sydney has a very different climate to Melbourne even though they are not far apart. In Melbourne, while we don’t get snow on the streets (in the hills around Melbourne there often is in a cold winter) it gets very frosty and bitterly cold mid winter. Sydney is more temperate, with lots more sunshine, but nasty storms. Most Australian designers are Sydney based, which is fine, but it does leave a hole in the market for warm winter woolies and coats (such as lack of good coats!).

In case you didn’t experience it, Melbourne has 4 seasons in a day, so layering is often essential for survival.

Thank you for coming here and showing people that we do have some beautiful people and beautiful style. But please try and stay in Melbourne longer next time,it has been sad not seeing many photos on Melbourne but it definitely is a city with more of an underground/secret feel – while Sydneysiders like to get out there!

I loved having you and Scott here in Australia – and I don’t even know you!

There IS plenty to see amongst Australian designers and design enthusiasts but having ourselves reflected through your skilled eyes is really helpful. I love your blogs for the additional details – a bare leg, a colour combination, a collar, a destination dresser – you point out which then inform my own eye for fashion.

You may have heard someone say, Australia is “the lucky country”. Indeed the weather is beautiful, the food is fresh and life is easy, but I honestly believe our design suffers for it – or aesthetics are rarely challenged, and if so, often in crude, unrefined ways.

It takes a certain slice of life in Paris or New York or another special city to create streetstyle photographers of your (combined) refinement and skill.

Oh, for long caramel legs like those! British spring has turned sulky and wet again and these pictures make me want to throw off the layers of fleece and wool and bare my blue-white legs to the non-existent sunshine.

The second girl was also on the Sartorialist in Paris a little while ago – the one with the fantastic coloured Josh Goot dress & the same boots – she definitely has great style! I do just love the first photo too – your sydney shots have been fabulous indeed!